Virtue Ethics
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- Virtue Ethics
- Modern Virtue Ethics
- Hugo Grotius
- morality is fixed in natural laws which can be rationally perceived by all
- Alasdair MacIntyre
- believes our society lacks virtues
- 'we have - very largely, if not entirely - lost our comprehension, both theoretical and practical, of morality'
- morality has suffered a catastrophe
- we are back in the Dark Ages
- we have lost our moral wisdom
- we are back in the Dark Ages
- Hugo Grotius
- a third way of normative ethics
- between teleological and deontological
- teleological - focuses on the consequences of the situation
- deontological - focuses on the action/ duty and is sometimes determined by the roles or the situation
- ways in which we decide whether we are right or wrong
- between teleological and deontological
- James F Keenan
- summarised Virtue ethics in three questions
- who am I?
- who oight I become?
- how do I get there?
- summarised Virtue ethics in three questions
- Aristotle
- "arête" = excellence or virtue
- human flourishing
- Two types of virtues
- Intellectual virtues
- learned through instructions
- developed in the rational part of the soul
- learned through instructions
- moral virtues
- developed through habit
- developed in the irrational part of the soul
- developed through habit
- Intellectual virtues
- vice of deficiency - too little of the virtue
- vice of excess - too much of the virtue
- Book: Nicomachean Ethics
- by practising, we improve our virtue and become better people
- our ultimate goal is "eudaimonia" = quality of happiness
- "arête" = excellence or virtue
- person centered rather than action centered
- Critiques
- Philippa Foot
- despite virtues not guaranteeing happiness, they go some way to achieving it
- Alasdair MacIntrye
- Virtue Ethics is realistic and applicable to real-life situations, unlike other time-consuming and complex theories
- Mel Thompson
- strives for personal autonomy for the individual but it is done in the context of society
- Philippa Foot
- Modern Virtue Ethics
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